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...first person to ever write those words, but it's somehow become this trademark thing...
...there's a strong family history of the disease (particularly if one or more of your parents, sisters or brothers have had it), you may need to start sooner. A good rule of thumb is to begin getting tested 10 years before the age at which the youngest person in your family was found to have colon cancer...
...computers into classroom work. Romer asserts that education is "probably the worst laggard in coming up with better ways to do things," and it will have to change because the skills of the workforce can no longer be improved just by increasing "seat time," the number of years a person stays in school. "We can't ask people to train for the workforce until they're 25, 30, 35," he says, so it will be necessary "to increase the amount of skill we impart per year of education...
Maybe not, but plenty of other folks are. The number of online trading households in the U.S., which totaled 4.3 million in 1998, is expected to pass 20.3 million in 2003. And while the average online investor is 39, the average person investing with a traditional broker is 52. That age gap is what finally got to Merrill. Says Thomson: "We had to look around and ask, 'Are we going to inherit the children of our clients automatically, or are we going to have to put up our dukes and start fighting...
...painful trade-off in 1997. In 1996 the discount brokerage developed a separate online unit called e.Schwab. "But customers were understandably confused," says Martha Deevy, senior vice president of Schwab's electronic brokerage business. "The online customers wanted to go into a branch office to talk to someone in person, and the branch customers wanted the convenience of trading online." So Schwab gave the customers what they wanted, uniting the businesses and dropping the cost of all trades to the online price--$29.95. Schwab took a hit in the short run, the price cut shaving about $125 million...